Samuel Albert Cook

Samuel Albert Cook (May 3, 1878 – February 10, 1915) was a medical doctor and member of the American Red Cross mission in Serbia during First World War.

From December 1914 to May 1915 in Serbia, during the typhoid epidemic, 35,000 Serbian soldiers, 35,000 prisoners and 120,000 civilians died.

The focus point of the disease was Valjevo, in which nearly ten thousand people died from the end of December 1914 to the beginning of May 1915.

The casualties included 3,500 Serb soldiers, 4,000 civilians and 2,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, and hundreds of sick died daily during the epidemic.

A decisive role in the suppression of the typhoid epidemic in Serbia had the American mission and was headed by one of the most significant epidemiologists of the time, Richard Strong, a professor at Harvard.